Lorraine "Rain" Wilson: Faith, Intelligent, Likes Cyndi Lauper?, knowledge of pre-apocalypse history/culture due to relatively advanced age.
Locations - (include physical details, climate, general descriptions) Flooded city, the Salvage room
The Mormon Sea: the former Great Salt Lake, now expanded to the point that it has flooded Salt Lake City.
Oquirrh Island: Manufacturing hub for the region, forever under a thick haze of coal smoke. Nobody lives on the island, but many commute to work in industrial jobs there.
World Details:
[[#|Class]] system and roles:The water patrol
Climate: Rainy and brisk
Economic system: U.S. Currency albeit as a different value than we use today.
Educational system: At least in Mormon territory, formal education still exists, but most people never advance past the Sixth Grade, and the grades take considerably longer to [[#|[[#|complete]]]] than they do in our world (19-year-old Lehi McKay is "almost done" with Sixth Grade). This implies either that a lot more is material is taught in a grade in this world than ours, or that grades take much longer to complete, most likely because everyone has a full-time job at a very early age. Education is either not mandatory or not rigidly enforced (Deaver points out how easy it would be to drop out of [[#|school]]), but seems to be universally available.
It is possible to improve the standard of living through [[#|education]], or at least get a better job by completing grade 6.
Factions: Believers and Non-Believers of the Mormon faith
Gender roles: Probably fairly traditional and conservative in the most Mormon area: Male as breadwinners, Females as homemakers. Will likely vary in different areas with other factional alignments.
General culture (food, music, past times, art):
Mormons are the dominant faith, and power. Most of the population's lives center around their work. There are always people working in the cities, but no one lives there, instead migrating to suburbs at the end of their shifts. A Mormon practice seems to be dropping prayers inscribed on metal plates into the Mormon Sea, where the old Tabernacle was. The entire area seems to be sacred to the Mormon faith.
[[#|Healthcare]]: We could assume that medical supplies are scavenged.
History: History is skewed slightly. Most are generally aware of what it could have been like before the fallout. Example: the Atari is still useable, so it's not so distant future, but they think it only cost 15 or 20 dollars which they thought was outrageous and almost wasteful.
Language: English
Law and justice: Similar to present day law and justice, although the authorities have only been referred to as lake patrol.
Political system: The government is essentially a branch of the Mormon church. The Bishop is elected to be the judge in each town, and the president of the elders the mayor.
Population size:Not addressed
Professions: Salvage Driver, Underwater salvage diver, foundry worker, farmer, coal miner (implied by heavy use of coal in industry), computer/electronics [[#|repair]], politician/church official
Youth enter professions very early in life- at least before age 16.
Races and race relations: Not addressed
Religions: Mormon church which is run similar to a government, non-believers.
Setting (city, country, space, mix): Post-Apocalyptic Salt Lake City, Nevada (USA).
Sexual roles: Men seem to have reverted to more coarse, vulgar ways of speaking, resorting to vocal misogyny. Men work like dogs while women marry and act as medieval versions of housewives. Basically traditional gender roles are reinforced but because of poor living conditions, they are pushed to 50s rural era roles.
Technology: Analogous to modern, except that coal is the main power source and most machinery is salvaged from depopulated areas or areas without a source of electricity. Computer technology is used to run more areas of living than in our present day, thus the need for constant salvage.
Transportation: Modern gasoline-powered trucks and boats are in use. Many areas appear to rely mainly on horses.
Morman controlled areas of Nevada have no petroleum-based transportation.
Weapons: The only weapons mentioned are knives, but widespread salvaging probably provides some firearms.
Characters - (including traits, skills, dispositions, personal histories, etc.)
Locations - (include physical details, climate, general descriptions) Flooded city, the Salvage room
The Mormon Sea: the former Great Salt Lake, now expanded to the point that it has flooded Salt Lake City.
Oquirrh Island: Manufacturing hub for the region, forever under a thick haze of coal smoke. Nobody lives on the island, but many commute to work in industrial jobs there.
World Details:
[[#|Class]] system and roles:The water patrol
Climate: Rainy and brisk
Economic system: U.S. Currency albeit as a different value than we use today.
Educational system: At least in Mormon territory, formal education still exists, but most people never advance past the Sixth Grade, and the grades take considerably longer to [[#|[[#|complete]]]] than they do in our world (19-year-old Lehi McKay is "almost done" with Sixth Grade). This implies either that a lot more is material is taught in a grade in this world than ours, or that grades take much longer to complete, most likely because everyone has a full-time job at a very early age. Education is either not mandatory or not rigidly enforced (Deaver points out how easy it would be to drop out of [[#|school]]), but seems to be universally available.
It is possible to improve the standard of living through [[#|education]], or at least get a better job by completing grade 6.
Factions: Believers and Non-Believers of the Mormon faith
Gender roles: Probably fairly traditional and conservative in the most Mormon area: Male as breadwinners, Females as homemakers. Will likely vary in different areas with other factional alignments.
General culture (food, music, past times, art):
Mormons are the dominant faith, and power. Most of the population's lives center around their work. There are always people working in the cities, but no one lives there, instead migrating to suburbs at the end of their shifts. A Mormon practice seems to be dropping prayers inscribed on metal plates into the Mormon Sea, where the old Tabernacle was. The entire area seems to be sacred to the Mormon faith.
[[#|Healthcare]]: We could assume that medical supplies are scavenged.
History: History is skewed slightly. Most are generally aware of what it could have been like before the fallout. Example: the Atari is still useable, so it's not so distant future, but they think it only cost 15 or 20 dollars which they thought was outrageous and almost wasteful.
Language: English
Law and justice: Similar to present day law and justice, although the authorities have only been referred to as lake patrol.
Political system: The government is essentially a branch of the Mormon church. The Bishop is elected to be the judge in each town, and the president of the elders the mayor.
Population size: Not addressed
Professions: Salvage Driver, Underwater salvage diver, foundry worker, farmer, coal miner (implied by heavy use of coal in industry), computer/electronics [[#|repair]], politician/church official
Youth enter professions very early in life- at least before age 16.
Races and race relations: Not addressed
Religions: Mormon church which is run similar to a government, non-believers.
Setting (city, country, space, mix): Post-Apocalyptic Salt Lake City, Nevada (USA).
Sexual roles: Men seem to have reverted to more coarse, vulgar ways of speaking, resorting to vocal misogyny. Men work like dogs while women marry and act as medieval versions of housewives. Basically traditional gender roles are reinforced but because of poor living conditions, they are pushed to 50s rural era roles.
Technology: Analogous to modern, except that coal is the main power source and most machinery is salvaged from depopulated areas or areas without a source of electricity. Computer technology is used to run more areas of living than in our present day, thus the need for constant salvage.
Transportation: Modern gasoline-powered trucks and boats are in use. Many areas appear to rely mainly on horses.
Morman controlled areas of Nevada have no petroleum-based transportation.
Weapons: The only weapons mentioned are knives, but widespread salvaging probably provides some firearms.